Dr. Hooshang Heshmat, President/CEO & Technical Director of Mohawk Innovative Technology, Inc. (MiTi) has accepted an invitation to be a member of the prestigious International Advisory Board to the French Institute National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA-Lyon) and the LaMCoS and UMR laboratories, which form a joint INSA-Lyon and CNRS research laboratory. CNRS is The National Centre for Scientific Research, the largest governmental research organization in France and the…

Honored at MiTi’s holiday party were Dr. Jose L. Cordova and Erica B. Jewell, presented with MiTi pin’s by Dr. Hooshang Heshmat and James F. Walton II, for their hard work and commitment to MiTi. Congrats to them both!

At MiTi’s Holiday Party, Dave Slezak was honored with an “Employee of the Year” plaque by Dr. Hooshang Heshmat and James F. Walton II, for his dedicated work on MiTi’s Air Force project. Congratulations!

[Albany, New York] – Mohawk Innovative Technology, Inc. (MiTi) announced today that it was awarded $2.5 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding will be used to develop a small, low cost system to produce electricity and hot water for residential use. The natural gas powered machine is based on MiTi’s Hyperlaminar Flow Engine design concept that will continuously produce 1…

Dr. Heshmat will be presenting the paper he co-authored with Mr. James F. Walton II, titled “Starved Hydrodynamic Gas Foil Bearings – Experimental, Micromechanical Phenomenon and Hypotheses” at the STLE Tribology Frontiers Conference being held in Denver, Colorado from October 25th to 27th, 2015 (Presentation will be held 10-27 at 3:20 PM at the Grand Hyatt Denver).

Hooshang Heshmat, Ph.D., Technical Director, James F. Walton II, Vice President of Program Development and Andrew Z. Hunsberger, Senior Research Engineeer, have been recognized by the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for their research efforts in small and highly efficient energy generator technology. The award for Best Small Turbomachinery Paper, titled “OIL-FREE 8 KW HIGH-SPEED AND HIGH SPECIFIC POWER TURBOGENERATOR” and presented at…